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Bilingualism; Creation and Migration; Homes and Nostalgia: Art and Life with Joanna Kurowska: A Polish-American perspective.
No full textJoanna Kurowska is the author of seven critically acclaimed volumes of poetry, Stained Glass (coming March 2016); Intricacies (coming November 2015); The Butterfly's Choice (Broadstone Books, 2015); Inclusions (Cervena Barva Press, 2014); The Wall & Beyond (eLectio Publishing, 2013); Obok : Near (Oficyna Literacka, 1999, Poland); and Ściana : The Wall (Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, 1997, Poland). Her poems, flash fiction, and scholarly work have been published widely in American and international journals, such as Atticus Review, Bateau, Christianity and Literature, The Conradian (UK), Episteme (India); International Poetry Review, Journal of Religion and the Arts, Kultura (Paris), Levure littéraire, Room Magazine, Slavic & East European Journal, Southern Quarterly, and elsewhere. Kurowska has taught at American Universities, including Indiana University, Bloomington, and the University of Chicago. She is the recipient of scholarly and literary awards, including Bruce Harkness Young Conrad Scholar Award, Kościuszko Foundation Stipend, Pushcart nominations; Jerzy Popiełuszko National Poetry Contest Award; and others. Joanna Kurowska currently works as an independent scholar and writer. Website: http://joanna-kurowska.co
Comparative social policy analysis of parental leave policies through the lenses of capability approach
No full textSynovial tissue macrophages: friend or foe?
No full textHealthy synovial tissue includes a lining layer of synovial fibroblasts and macrophages. The influx of leucocytes during active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) includes monocytes that differentiate locally into proinflammatory macrophages, and these produce pathogenic tumour necrosis factor. During sustained remission, the synovial tissue macrophage numbers recede to normal. The constitutive presence of tissue macrophages in the lining layer of the synovial membrane in healthy donors and in patients with RA during remission suggests that this macrophage population may have a role in maintaining and reinstating synovial tissue homeostasis respectively. Recent appreciation of the different origins and functions of tissue-resident compared with monocyte-derived macrophages has improved the understanding of their relative involvement in organ homeostasis in mouse models of disease. In this review, informed by mouse models and human data, we describe the presence of different functional subpopulations of human synovial tissue macrophages and discuss their distinct contribution to joint homeostasis and chronic inflammation in RA
Wpływ galaktooligosacharydów na behawior i wybrane parametry układu białokrwinkowego u szczurów w warunkach elektrycznej stymulacji jądra środkowego ciała migdałowatego
No full textRuciński J., Kurowska E., Podlacha M., Stankiewicz A., Myślińska D., Jaskulski M., Jurkowlaniec E. Wpływ
galaktooligosacharydów na behawior i wybrane parametry układu białokrwinkowego
u szczurów w warunkach elektrycznej stymulacji jądra środkowego ciała
migdałowatego, w: Nauki przyrodnicze, cz. 11 / Nyćkowiak Jędrzej , Leśny Jacek
(red.), Badania i Rozwój Młodych Naukowców w Polsce , 2018, Młodzi Naukowcy,
ISBN 978-83-66139-42-8, ss. 92-98
Converting shared parental leave into shared parenting: the role of employers and use of litigation by employees in the UK
No full textSpatial planning and sustainable development of rural areas
No full textToday, the issue related to spatial planning in rural areas takes on particular significance. In this context a reference to the views of Professor W. Pańko is justified, as they remain perfectly stable. The planning is an instrument promoted by EU which enables permanent and sustainable development of rural areas. The planning is an imminent and integral element of the notion covering the management, as it concerns spatial planning in any economy system. The issue of spatial planning in rural areas should be viewed from the point of view of its functions (synchronisation, coordination and information), where the two last ones takes on particular significance for development of them. The coordination function plays an important role for the policy to support development of rural areas from the Union and national resources; it is expressed in the contents of local master plans and relates to the coordination of actions, as well as the organisation of cooperation among entities operating on the areas in concern and bringing together their interests. The information function, their place and actions in which satisfies openness and transparency of planning procedures gives all entities the awareness of their place and actions in economic space and its value. Construction elements of the prescriptive model of spatial planning ensure logic link between documents which designs spatial management of a commune (strategies of commune development, the spatial development conditions and directions study, local master plans) aim to ensure the spatial order and the sustainable development of communes in rural areas. The process of using the specified mechanisms is a very comprehensive, long-lasting, time consuming and expensive process, therefore there is a huge gap between the prescriptive model and the actual process of spatial development of rural communes. Current prescriptive model of spatial planning gives almost the same attention to the organisation of agricultural space as the legal regulation of 70s of the XX century. This raises the question on the adequacy of the referred model to organise development processes of the current agriculture, as on the one hand the model (the study and the local master plan) seems all perfect, then costly and heavy, and on the other hand a stream of funds for development of rural areas it is intended not only for the agriculture, but also for the whole multi-functional rural area. As the notion of a rural area is not the same as the notion of an agricultural manufacturing space then the concept of multi-functional rural areas should be matched by its expression and reflection in the instruments of spatial planning. However, the provisions of the act on spatial planning and development fail to pay attention to this issue special interest. In the paper’s content the Author seeks to respond to the dilemmas on this matter.Uniwersytet ŚląskiBianchi D., La politique agricole commune (PAC). Tout la PAC, rien d’autre que la PAC. Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2006.Blajer P., Sąsiedzkie prawo pierwokupu a struktura gruntowa polskich gospodarstw rolnych - panaceum czy pandemonium?, „Przegląd Prawa Rolnego” 2(2015).Bogucka I., Zagospodarowanie terenów rolniczych w przypadku braku planu miejscowego (zagadnienia prawne) „Studia Iuridica Agraria” 2012, t. X.Borucka-Arctowa M., O społecznym działaniu prawa, Warszawa 1967.Buczyński K., Ustawa o planowaniu i zagospodarowaniu przestrzennym. Komentarz. Art. 2, Legalis 2014.Goździewicz-Biechońska J., Planowanie przestrzenne wobec współczesnych tendencji rozwoju obszarów wiejskich, „Przegląd Prawa Rolnego” 2 (2015).Kremer E., Nowe rozwiązania dotyczące podziału gospodarstw rolnych, „Przegląd Prawa Rolnego” 2 (2015).Kurowska T., Ochrona gospodarstwa rodzinnego – uwagi de lege lata i de lege ferenda, „Studia Iuridica Agraria” 2010, t. VIII.Kurowska T., Profesor Walerian Pańko, (w:) W. Pańko, O prawie własności i jego współczesnych funkcjach, reprint wydania pierwszego, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2016.Kwaśniak P., Plan miejscowy w systemie zagospodarowania przestrzennego, Warszawa 2009, wydanie 2.Łobos-Kotowska D., Umowa przyznania pomocy z Europejskiego Funduszu Rolnego na rzecz Rozwoju Obszarów Wiejskich, Warszawa 2013.Pańko W., Własność gruntowa w planowej gospodarce przestrzennej. Studium prawne, Katowice 1978.Plucińska-Filipowicz A., T. Filipowicz (red.), Ustawa o planowaniu i zagospodarowaniu przestrzennym. Komentarz. Art. 2, Warszawa 2016.47-6114476
Predistorter Based K-Band FMCW Radar For Vehicle Speed Detection
No full text17th International Radar Symposium (IRS) -- MAY 10-12, 2016 -- Krakow, POLANDVehicle speed detection in a highway can be performed using either laser or radio-frequency (RF) signals. Since laser speed detectors are prone to weather conditions and easy to jam, they are not preferred in practical applications. However, FMCW radars in the CHz frequencies provide excellent distance and speed measurement performance where high accuracy and reliability are needed. In this study, we propose RF front-end architectures for improved K band low probability intercept radar. To improve FM signal linearity, a predistorter based FM chirp signal generator is used. At the baseband, signal conditioning is adjusted for increasing radar range up to 1000 meters. To simulate the entire system, a pyramidal horn antenna is designed
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